Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Caitlin Moran

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

William Shakespeare

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

Karl Rove

Reporters now see their role less as discovering facts and fair-mindedly reporting the truth and more as being put on the earth to afflict the comfortable, to be a constant thorn of those in power, whether they are Republican or Democrat.

Nelson Mandela

All South Africans would want me to take this opportunity to convey in person our heartfelt condolences at the tragic event which afflicted your family recently,

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; / And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

John Galsworthy

And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Jonathan Sacks

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

Those who have taken refuge in this knowledge attain unity with Me, and are neither born at the time of creation nor afflicted at the time of dissolution.

John Cornwell

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

C. S. Lewis

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

Henry Ward Beecher

Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to

Afflicted with pain, he wanders from house to house, and in the world hereafter, he receives double punishment.

Raghuram Rajan

Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.

Michael Mann

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.

And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.

Jessye Norman

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Fanny Burney

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

The survey was much weaker than expected indicating the bank's rate cut has done little to assuage the malaise that continues to afflict the U.K. consumer.

Sathya Baba

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

Martin Buber

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

The traditional role of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

Darin Strauss

I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Because the calm person, who is not afflicted by these feelings and is steady in pain and pleasure, becomes fit for immortality, O Arjuna.

It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.

Lucinda Franks

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.